Sophie Fullerton
@sophiefullerton.bsky.social
Lecturer on MENA & political theory. Researcher on conflicts & disinformation. Political Scientist via Columbia University.
Find my writings in The Washington Post, Formiche, Index on Censorship & elsewhere.
Opinions expressed are my own.
Find my writings in The Washington Post, Formiche, Index on Censorship & elsewhere.
Opinions expressed are my own.
Whenever a Russian official accuses someone else of corruption, it’s a deflection from the Kremlin’s own faults. The irony is that Dmitry describes Russia’s system more accurately than Ukraine’s. These statements say more about Putin’s failings than Ukraine’s political situation.
November 29, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Whenever a Russian official accuses someone else of corruption, it’s a deflection from the Kremlin’s own faults. The irony is that Dmitry describes Russia’s system more accurately than Ukraine’s. These statements say more about Putin’s failings than Ukraine’s political situation.
Every statement from Putin’s orbit is an admission of guilt. Let’s not forget it was the Russian state that refined the art of media manipulation/disinformation to sway contemporary conflicts from Syria to Ukraine in their favor. No one has perfected this craft better than the Kremlin.
November 28, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Every statement from Putin’s orbit is an admission of guilt. Let’s not forget it was the Russian state that refined the art of media manipulation/disinformation to sway contemporary conflicts from Syria to Ukraine in their favor. No one has perfected this craft better than the Kremlin.
The right-wing grievance machine is so incoherent at this point that the enemy has morphed into an amalgamation of fantasies & recycled buzzwords. A perfect reminder that these movements only can survive by inventing a villain to stoke perpetual fear in their base.
November 26, 2025 at 7:13 PM
The right-wing grievance machine is so incoherent at this point that the enemy has morphed into an amalgamation of fantasies & recycled buzzwords. A perfect reminder that these movements only can survive by inventing a villain to stoke perpetual fear in their base.
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This is the bad place.
November 20, 2025 at 6:35 PM
This is the bad place.
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I just don’t see how we can pretend even for a moment that anything involving our federal government is remotely normal when the president is covering up his involvement in a child sex trafficking ring. Like, what are we doing here
November 15, 2025 at 1:14 AM
I just don’t see how we can pretend even for a moment that anything involving our federal government is remotely normal when the president is covering up his involvement in a child sex trafficking ring. Like, what are we doing here
The hypocrisy of MAGA is staggering. A BU student & British national openly bragged about calling ICE on “criminals” who were be 9 car-wash employees with valid work permits. This movement has no coherent policy platform beyond its open disdain for people of color & its relentless moral hypocrisy.
November 14, 2025 at 3:50 PM
The hypocrisy of MAGA is staggering. A BU student & British national openly bragged about calling ICE on “criminals” who were be 9 car-wash employees with valid work permits. This movement has no coherent policy platform beyond its open disdain for people of color & its relentless moral hypocrisy.
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Ms Rachel says The New York Times asked her if she’s funded by Hamas
November 10, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Ms Rachel says The New York Times asked her if she’s funded by Hamas
Figures like Greenwald are so contrarian/anti-establishment that even a Portland ukulele hippie group gets dragged into their bizarro pro-Kremlin talking points.
How exhausting it must be to turn everything innocent into yet another pro-NATO psyop.
How exhausting it must be to turn everything innocent into yet another pro-NATO psyop.
October 8, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Figures like Greenwald are so contrarian/anti-establishment that even a Portland ukulele hippie group gets dragged into their bizarro pro-Kremlin talking points.
How exhausting it must be to turn everything innocent into yet another pro-NATO psyop.
How exhausting it must be to turn everything innocent into yet another pro-NATO psyop.
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As Trump continues to implement Project 2025 never forget that the alt-left helped whitewash his image.
The anti-establishment alt-left who cast Kamala as no different than Trump deserve the same amount of ridicule as the right-wing sycophants who normalized trumps most fascistic fantasies.
The anti-establishment alt-left who cast Kamala as no different than Trump deserve the same amount of ridicule as the right-wing sycophants who normalized trumps most fascistic fantasies.
October 5, 2025 at 8:39 PM
As Trump continues to implement Project 2025 never forget that the alt-left helped whitewash his image.
The anti-establishment alt-left who cast Kamala as no different than Trump deserve the same amount of ridicule as the right-wing sycophants who normalized trumps most fascistic fantasies.
The anti-establishment alt-left who cast Kamala as no different than Trump deserve the same amount of ridicule as the right-wing sycophants who normalized trumps most fascistic fantasies.
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Election Day in Syria.
I spoke a bit with 4 Syrian election observers who got a training in Damascus and will be observing the process in Homs. They were relatively optimistic.
From 9.00 am - 12.00 pm.
(It's almost 8.00 am now.)
I spoke a bit with 4 Syrian election observers who got a training in Damascus and will be observing the process in Homs. They were relatively optimistic.
From 9.00 am - 12.00 pm.
(It's almost 8.00 am now.)
October 5, 2025 at 4:54 AM
Election Day in Syria.
I spoke a bit with 4 Syrian election observers who got a training in Damascus and will be observing the process in Homs. They were relatively optimistic.
From 9.00 am - 12.00 pm.
(It's almost 8.00 am now.)
I spoke a bit with 4 Syrian election observers who got a training in Damascus and will be observing the process in Homs. They were relatively optimistic.
From 9.00 am - 12.00 pm.
(It's almost 8.00 am now.)
Lane is an obscure pro-Putin conspiracist whose content consists of conspiracies around Kirk’s death & fawning over Putin
Carlson appearing on such a podcast is a prime example of how Kremlin sympathizers platform fringe nobodies to advance Putin’s propaganda under the guise of “independent voices”
Carlson appearing on such a podcast is a prime example of how Kremlin sympathizers platform fringe nobodies to advance Putin’s propaganda under the guise of “independent voices”
October 5, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Lane is an obscure pro-Putin conspiracist whose content consists of conspiracies around Kirk’s death & fawning over Putin
Carlson appearing on such a podcast is a prime example of how Kremlin sympathizers platform fringe nobodies to advance Putin’s propaganda under the guise of “independent voices”
Carlson appearing on such a podcast is a prime example of how Kremlin sympathizers platform fringe nobodies to advance Putin’s propaganda under the guise of “independent voices”
The irony of such a post is that Pool himself was (and possibly still is) being funded by the Russians to promote pro-Kremlin disinformation within the U.S. in an effort to push his MAGA base more towards pro-Putin alignments.
Every accusation by MAGA is simply a confession.
Every accusation by MAGA is simply a confession.
October 4, 2025 at 8:45 PM
The irony of such a post is that Pool himself was (and possibly still is) being funded by the Russians to promote pro-Kremlin disinformation within the U.S. in an effort to push his MAGA base more towards pro-Putin alignments.
Every accusation by MAGA is simply a confession.
Every accusation by MAGA is simply a confession.
Germany is often marketed as the gold standard of liberal democracy. Yet the so-called guardian of liberalism abandons those values when it comes to Palestine. This is the same country that has deported activists, shut down events & criminalized slogans tied to Palestine solidarity.
Hypocrisy!
Hypocrisy!
🇩🇪🇵🇸 #WATCH | German police have escalated the violence used against peaceful protesters, who bravely take to the streets demanding an end to the Israeli genocide in Gaza.
October 3, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Germany is often marketed as the gold standard of liberal democracy. Yet the so-called guardian of liberalism abandons those values when it comes to Palestine. This is the same country that has deported activists, shut down events & criminalized slogans tied to Palestine solidarity.
Hypocrisy!
Hypocrisy!
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1/ DEVELOPING: A journalist was rushed to New York-Presbyterian Hospital following another incident with an ICE agent at 26 Federal Plaza, an immigration court in NYC. The last I heard, he was getting X-rays for his lower back.
September 30, 2025 at 6:37 PM
1/ DEVELOPING: A journalist was rushed to New York-Presbyterian Hospital following another incident with an ICE agent at 26 Federal Plaza, an immigration court in NYC. The last I heard, he was getting X-rays for his lower back.
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Top headline on X today, despite there being no concrete evidence of the shooter being a leftist, aside from far-right radicals, including Musk himself, trying to whitewash the fact that the shooter came from a pro-Trump household and openly admired white nationalists like Nick Fuentes.
September 14, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Top headline on X today, despite there being no concrete evidence of the shooter being a leftist, aside from far-right radicals, including Musk himself, trying to whitewash the fact that the shooter came from a pro-Trump household and openly admired white nationalists like Nick Fuentes.
The right-wing grievance machine always needs a boogeyman. Post 9/11 it was Arabs & Muslims. By the 2010s it was Mexicans on the southern border. And now, they’ve fixated on trans people to keep their cultural war grievances front & center. The demographics may change, but their playbook doesn’t
September 14, 2025 at 3:06 PM
The right-wing grievance machine always needs a boogeyman. Post 9/11 it was Arabs & Muslims. By the 2010s it was Mexicans on the southern border. And now, they’ve fixated on trans people to keep their cultural war grievances front & center. The demographics may change, but their playbook doesn’t
The shooter only attended a semester of uni before enrolling in a trade school & was politically radicalized by far-right groups & forums online. Perhaps if he had stayed in university longer, he would have been able to sharpen his critical thinking skills instead of succumbing to far-right violence
September 14, 2025 at 1:58 PM
The shooter only attended a semester of uni before enrolling in a trade school & was politically radicalized by far-right groups & forums online. Perhaps if he had stayed in university longer, he would have been able to sharpen his critical thinking skills instead of succumbing to far-right violence
Alex Jones level conspiracism from a man who owns one of the largest platforms in the world. If the far-right wants to understand how the Kirk assassination happened, all they need to do is look inward at the culture of paranoia, hatred, and radicalization they’ve spent years stoking.
September 14, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Alex Jones level conspiracism from a man who owns one of the largest platforms in the world. If the far-right wants to understand how the Kirk assassination happened, all they need to do is look inward at the culture of paranoia, hatred, and radicalization they’ve spent years stoking.
MAGA hypocrisy at its finest. The same people who spent years mocking police brutality against African Americans, excusing the slaughter of Palestinians, and dehumanizing Muslims (with some even building entire brands and careers off such hatred ) are now pretending to take the moral high ground.
It’s important to understand the extent of the digital bloodlust on X. They’re scraping data from social media sites—including Bsky—to create a searchable database targeting people for perceived thoughtcrimes related to CK. It has 40k names so far, and they’re sharing it with the federal government.
September 13, 2025 at 10:50 PM
MAGA hypocrisy at its finest. The same people who spent years mocking police brutality against African Americans, excusing the slaughter of Palestinians, and dehumanizing Muslims (with some even building entire brands and careers off such hatred ) are now pretending to take the moral high ground.
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It’s important to understand the extent of the digital bloodlust on X. They’re scraping data from social media sites—including Bsky—to create a searchable database targeting people for perceived thoughtcrimes related to CK. It has 40k names so far, and they’re sharing it with the federal government.
September 13, 2025 at 10:30 PM
It’s important to understand the extent of the digital bloodlust on X. They’re scraping data from social media sites—including Bsky—to create a searchable database targeting people for perceived thoughtcrimes related to CK. It has 40k names so far, and they’re sharing it with the federal government.